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The Way They Were: The View from the Hill of the 25 Years That Remade Australia

by Alan Ramsey

For many years in Australia, reading journalist Alan Ramsey’s vitriolic, insightful, and always engaging pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings. This book is the compilation...


Reforming International Institutions: Another World is Possible

by Josep Xercavins

There is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the international economic architecture need...


Civil Society: "Measurement, Evaluation, Policy"

by Helmut Anheier

Civil society - comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements - has in recent years emerged as the major force for change in the realms of politics, public policy and society...


Environmental Policy in the European Union

by Andrew Jordan

This second and fully revised edition brings together some of the most influential work on the theory and practice of contemporary EU environmental policy. Comprising five comprehensive parts, it includes in-depth...


Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century

by Michael Edwards

An optimistic assessment of the prospects for a new international order - acting as a counter-blast to global pessimism. The text explains how the international system operates, the pressures it faces and the...


Governance for Sustainable Development: A Foundation for the Future

by Rosalie Callway

As the process of globalization continues and power imbalances between decision-making institutions become increasingly apparent, the need for a critical assessment of the way in which we manage our interaction...


Implementing the Precautionary Principle: "Approaches from the Nordic Countries, EU and USA"

by Nicolas de de Sadeleer

From fisheries to persistent organic pollutants to climate change itself, no other environmental principle in environmental law has produced as much controversy as the precautionary principle. Unlike a preventive...


Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World

by Robert D D Bullard, Julian Agyeman & Bob Evans

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life....


Multi-stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability: Beyond Deadlock and Conflict

by Minu Hemmati

Governments, business, international bodies and local groups are turning to multi-stakeholder processes to find practical ways forward. This book explains how MSPs can be organized to deliver their potential...


Globalism, Localism and Identity: New Perspectives on the Transition of Sustainability

by Tim O'Riordan

Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide...


Pakistan in Regional and Global Politics

by Rajshree Jetly

Pakistan is at currently at the centre of regional and global geo-strategic issues as a frontline state in the global war on terrorism. It is seeking to project itself as a modern Islamic state that can engage...


My Fellow Americans: Presidents Speak to the People in Troubled Times

by Michael Worek

The most interesting and inspiring presidential speeches, from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama.

From Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama, American presidents have faced unprecedented challenges at home and...


Reckless: The Political Assault on the American Environment

by Bob Deans & Robert Redford

In a single calendar year, the Republican House voted an astonishing 191 times to weaken, block ,or delay needed measures that defend our air, water, wildlife and lands. This enhanced e-book with nine videos...


Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

by J. Eric Oliver, Shang E. Ha & Zachary Callen

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a quarter of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have...


The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine

by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt & Media Matters for America

Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news...


How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency

by Saladin Ambar

Saladin M. Ambar's innovative study is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency what it is today. This book explodes the idea that the modern presidency began after 1945, instead...


Countries at the Crossroads 2011: An Analysis of Democratic Governance

by Freedom House

Countries at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Democratic Governance evaluates government performance in seventy strategically important countries from across the globe, including emerging market countries and...


Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements

by Edward D. Mansfield & Helen V. Milner

Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These...


Alberta's Day Care Controversy

by Tom Langford

Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life...


Globalizing Civic Engagement

by John D Clark

'Informative and useful.' Development and Change Until recently, most civil society organizations (CSOs) operated at national or local levels. However, new global organizations and networks are increasingly...